This anime is based on a 1999 radio drama about three very different
girls: Akari, Yuki and Nozomi; going to see the concert of top pop idol
Reika and by going to see this concert their lives are greatly
influenced by it.

Akari was raised in a very religious background, she is bright and
cheerful and a big Reika fan. Yuki is an independent girl who ran away
from her home in Hakodate. She is working in the concert hall of Reika's
performance. Nozomi is the daughter from a wealthy family in Kobe. She's
got one of the VIP seats at the concert.

The three girls are so inspired by Reika's performance, that they all
enroll in the Akiba music school and endeavor to become pop idols
themselves.

Type: Animation

Languages: Japanese

Status: Ended

Runtime: 25 minutes

Premier: 2001-05-21

Chance! Pop Sessions - Paul Potts - Netflix

Paul Robert Potts (born 13 October 1970) is a British tenor. In 2007, he
won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent with his performance
of “Nessun dorma”, an aria from Puccini's opera Turandot. As a singer of
operatic pop music, Potts recorded the album One Chance, which topped
sales charts in thirteen countries. Prior to winning Britain's Got
Talent, Potts was a manager at The Carphone Warehouse. He had served as
a Bristol city councillor from 1996 until 2003, and also had performed
in amateur opera from 1999 to 2003.

Chance! Pop Sessions - After Britain's Got Talent - Netflix

In the United States, he was profiled on a National Public Radio
programme called Day to Day, and appeared live on NBC's programme Today.
In July 2007, Potts performed his rendition of “Nessun dorma” at a
Katherine Jenkins concert at Margam Park, Wales. On 16 July 2007, his
debut album One Chance was released in the UK, and claimed the No. 1
spot in the UK Album Chart the following week. In December 2007, Prime
Minister Gordon Brown presented Potts with a platinum disc for having
sold 2,000,000 copies of his album. On 13 December 2007, he performed in
Leipzig in the live television broadcast of the 13th annual José
Carreras Gala, accompanied by the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg
under the direction of Scott Lawton. In January he began his concert
series of 97 concerts in 85 cities across 23 countries; this ended on 12
November. This included three outdoor classical music concerts with the
Finnish violinist Linda Brava and the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra at
Sofiero Palace, Sundbyholms Castle and Slottskogsvallen from 24 to 26
July. In the semi-finals of the 2009 series of Britain's Got Talent,
Potts appeared in a comeback performance. Potts was invited to appear on
an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show about YouTube, a site where clips
of his performances had been viewed over 92 million times as of April
2012; as of April 2009, his first appearance on Britain's Got Talent was
the fourth most viewed YouTube video in the UK. On 24 November 2007,
Potts was interviewed on the National Public Radio programme Weekend
Edition. On 15 August 2008, he performed before the German football
season opener match between Bayern Munich and Hamburger SV in front of
69,000 visitors as well as on 2 September 2008 during the farewell game
for Oliver Kahn. In July 2008, Deutsche Telekom began using a TV and
cinema advertisement centred on his Britain's Got Talent performance. In
August 2008, he did a now famous duet with Daniel Powter on the
Wolfbaggin' Tour. In October 2008, Paul Potts sang in Japanese TV
advertisements for Ryukakusan Direct throat medicine. Potts received two
nominations at the Echo Awards 2009 in Germany: Best International Male
Artist and Album of the Year. He won the 2009 Echo Award for Best
International Male Artist on 21 February 2009. On 22 April 2009, Potts
was the guest co-host on the Australian television programme The Morning
Show with Kylie Gillies. Expanding his talent to the online world, Paul
Potts recently performed an exclusive in studio performance for AOL
Sessions. He collaborated with Swedish singer Carola Häggkvist on her
Christmas album Christmas in Bethlehem, singing “O Holy Night”. Potts
has appeared twice on the popular Korean Talent TV show Star King, first
in 2008 and once again in 2010. Potts was in Toronto on 10 November 2010
performing a “flash opera” at the Union Subway Station to a
moderately-sized crowd and finished to loud applause. In 2013 Potts
appeared on the Korean television programme Qualifying Man. Then on 9
August 2014 he appeared in Durban, South Africa alongside Got Talent
winners 44-year-old James Bhemgee and 10-year-old soprano Amira
Willighagen. In the summer of 2016 Potts took on two full length opera
roles for the first time in his professional career. He played the role
of Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca at Summer Sessions at Chiswick House
June 15 and 16 before playing the role of Steuermann (Steersman) in
Szeged Open Air Festivals' production of Wagner's Der Fliegende
Holländer on July 1 and 2.